Horrifically bad: worst horror games

There are plenty of articles dedicated to the best entries in the horror genre in honour of Halloween. But what about those at the other end of the scale: what about the releases which are so toe-curlingly bad that, rather than covering your eyes in fright they have you laughing at the screen in disbelief?

As if making ourselves watch the trailers for the worst-rated games on Steam earlier this year wasn’t painful enough, my other-half and I recently decided to subject our minds to a special extended Halloween edition. Read on to find out about the worst-rated titles with a ‘horror’ tag currently on the platform and our reactions to them. Prepare to be scared… or probably not.

10. Bunker 58

Steam rating: Negative (0%)Example review: What the game description on the store page should be: ‘After playing this game, you will question yourself how much the devs value their reputation, and how far will they go to pursue their dreams.’

Kim: “Oh look. Zombies, now there’s a surprise. Hang on a minute – did that zombie just run through a wall?”

Steam rating: Very Negative (19%)Example review: I’d rather have someone squeeze my nipples until they lactated than ever even look in this game’s general direction ever again.

Kim: “Ok, I can’t seem to find a trailer for this game anywhere so you’ll just need to look at the description and screenshots for this one. *Reads description out loud*”

Pete: “If you’re not going to have a trailer and are going to rely on your write-up, you’re going to need to come up with a better description than that. I’ve not even seen the screenshots yet and I already don’t want to play the game.”

Steam rating: Overwhelmingly Negative (19%)Example review: The only good thing about this game is that after the insufferable torture that is GASP, they were kind enough to plant a massive tumor in my head to end my misery.

That’s all we can take for now – we’re going to lie down in a dark room for a while and recover. If you made it to the end of this post, congratulations on making it through and have a excellent Halloween!

What a terrifying post 😛 I quite enjoyed Gasp – the realism of asteroids bouncing off of an astronaut’s head over and over again added a layer I was not expecting. And FlatOut 3… I didn’t realize it was possible for a passenger to be ejected out of the bottom of the chassis. That had to have been some heck of a crash…

In regards to building a skyscraper, I offer Sim Tower as an example of a pretty interesting game about building a tower (at least, I enjoyed it), but when I saw Skyscraper Simulator… yeah I’m not sure what the draw for that one might be… The horror of all of these games is, as they say, not that they occurred, but that they were allowed. Happy Halloween!

Even though I enjoyed it, I did a lot of WTFing during the Silent Hill 2 Let’s Play I watched. Everyone in those games just acts so WEIRD, and I think SH 2 was the worst in that regard. There’s completely nonsense going on, but their conversations don’t even recognize it. I know what’s going on under the surface, but the most egregious scene was after a boss fight with a monstrous table and the other character started berating the protagonist for not being a good husband to his dead wife. Like you DO realize you’re in a flesh wall papered room with pistons in the walls, right?

Oh me neither! I didn’t even really know what they were about (save Silent Hill and a vague knowledge about Pyramid Head) until now. They’re definitely something you should experience. They’re not scary, but they’re creepy, interesting, and fun!